Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada. - Jane Jacobs

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Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.

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Jane Jacobs (4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist, most famous as author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. In 1968, Jacobs moved to Toronto, where she lived until her death.

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Birth Name: Jane Butzner
Alternative Names: Jane Butzner Jacobs
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